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“Right now, what I’m focused on is keeping my customers and my employees content, happy, working toward their required needs. I really believe in the justice system. I do,” Harr (CEO Rose Harr) said, sipping coffee in the lobby of her headquarters.
“We’ve got some fantastic lawyers. I’m sure that the (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) agents also want justice. I know that when all of the information, the ‘deep-dive’ is done, we’ll be fine. Because we have done nothing wrong,” she said.
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File photo shows the 2012 ribbon-cutting ceremony at BlueWare’s facility in Melbourne. CEO Rose Harr, second from left, says, ‘Right now, what I’m focused on is keeping my customers and my employees content, happy, working toward their required needs. I really believe in the justice system. I do.’ / Craig Rubadoux, FLORIDA TODAY
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Embattled CEO maintains innocence, works to keep company afloat
Sep. 27, 2013 12:35 PM |
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Rick Neale
FLORIDA TODAY
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MELBOURNE — Only two remaining workers man Kodak i5800 scanners inside BlueWare’s largely silent, spacious scanning room, where tens of millions of Brevard County court documents were supposed to be digitized and stored electronically.
This was once a bustling start-up workplace with energized employees, former workers recall. But manpower inside BlueWare’s new 12,000-square-foot headquarters on West Drive has shrunk in recent months from about 60 people to 10 layoff survivors.
The comfortable “coffee shop” employee-training area with couches and rugs is largely unused. Numerous computer workstations sit dormant. And footsteps echo.
BlueWare is under legal and political assault. State investigators believe BlueWare President and Chief Executive Officer Rose Harr was a central figure in a kickback scheme that funneled cash to former Brevard County Clerk of Courts Mitch Needelman’s 2012 political campaign in return for an .52 million scanning contract.
Needelman, Harr and Matt Dupree, vice president of corporate subsidiary BlueGEM and former business partner of Needelman, face felony charges including bribery, bid tampering, official misconduct and unlawful campaign contributions.
“Right now, what I’m focused on is keeping my customers and my employees content, happy, working toward their required needs. I really believe in the justice system. I do,” Harr said, sipping coffee in the lobby of her headquarters.
“We’ve got some fantastic lawyers. I’m sure that the (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) agents also want justice. I know that when all of the information, the ‘deep-dive’ is done, we’ll be fine. Because we have done nothing wrong,” she said.
Harr faces battles on twin fronts — keeping BlueWare’s Florida-based business afloat amid the scanning scandal and also fighting her own criminal charges, which prosecutors upgraded last week.
Harr’s lawyer is Orlando white-collar defense attorney Mark Horwitz. He did not return messages seeking comment.
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Contact Neale at 321-242-3638 or rneale@floridatoday.com.
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It’s certainly a different situation than it was 16 months ago.
In May 2012, Space Coast officials welcomed BlueWare to Melbourne with a gala ribbon-cutting ceremony. Harr had moved her company from Michigan with visions of hiring up to 190 workers with average salaries of ,000 — thus qualifying for potential state, county and city financial incentives totaling nearly .8 million.
Politicians ranging from Gov. Rick Scott to Melbourne City Council members boasted about landing BlueWare.
After purchasing the office building next to On The Edge Rock Climbing Gym on West Drive in Melbourne last November for 5,000, the company ramped up hiring and decorated walls with maps symbolizing BlueWare clients in Eastern Europe, Singapore, South Africa and elsewhere.
Needelman held weekly meetings and progress inspections here as BlueWare prepared for his five-year, .52 million document-scanning deal.
During his Dec. 4 BlueWare meeting, Needelman noted that 30 to 50 employees were prepping the 12,000-square-foot facility — installing shelving, wiring and equipment — to begin scanning documents.
“With what I saw, I feel confident that this is going to happen as we visioned,” Needelman emailed his records management supervisor on Dec. 4. Document delivery began three days later.
Needleman’s e-mails and other documents are now starting to be made public.
FLORIDA TODAY recently obtained some of Needleman’s e-mail correspondences involving BlueWare.
In January, Clerk of Courts Scott Ellis — who defeated Needelman in the Republican primary and publicly lambasted Needelman’s BlueWare deal as a boondoggle — pulled the plug on the scanning contract. Harr said this move “gutted” and “almost single-handedly destroyed” her Florida operations.
“All of a sudden, we get the rug pulled out from underneath us,” she said. “It’s just so sad that we have been used in a very political campaign. And we have been, more or less, a means to an end for Scott Ellis’ political gain. I’m upset about that. I’m frustrated about that
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“Scott Ellis is doing everything he can to kill me. But I don’t think he’s going to kill me,” she said.
Harr said BlueWare invested roughly million in the building, million in equipment and hired and trained 60 workers with average salaries of ,000 in anticipation of scanning 250 million to 500 million Clerk of Courts documents, starting with archived files stored in a Titusville gymnasium.
After Needelman lost the election, Harr said her company received a “discounted” up-front payment of .4 million rather than the .52 million full contract amount. Then Ellis canceled the remaining scanning work.
“We’re working on building up business. We’re not going through the best times. The business is running. But it’s not flourishing,” Harr said.
Harr declined to discuss specifics of her pending charges. But she said she was victimized by allegations from former BlueWare Chief Operating Officer Nick Geaney to FDLE investigators. She labeled Geaney “an unethical ex-employee that was doing illegal acts, and continued to do illegal acts.”
Harr and Geaney’s business relationship soured in 2012, and she fired him last June. Two months afterward, she contacted authorities in Wexford County, Mich., and leveled a series of accusations against Geaney, documents show. She claimed he:
• Tried to embezzle ,000 from BlueWare and “sabotage” the company to steal clients and China trade secrets.
• Stole about ,000 in BlueWare-owned furnishings from his Florida home, which was leased by the company.
• Was living in the United States as an illegal immigrant.
Wexford County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Smathers did not pursue charges against Geaney. Rather, Smathers told Harr his office does not prosecute citizenship-status crimes, and the other allegations were matters best handled in civil court.
Geaney sued BlueWare and Harr last August in a Michigan circuit court for wrongful termination and defamation, claiming he was owed 0,000 in compensation and commissions.
The parties reached an out-of-court settlement in May, Geaney said. Neither would comment further on the matter.
Harr said she has “absolutely” considered suing Ellis, “at least 20 to 30” allegations, but now is not the time. She declined to elaborate on a possible legal strategy.
“I have every intention of waiting out this storm and coming back up into full production. We have a lot of prospects. And we’re keeping our head down and doing our work,” Harr said.
Harr’s daughter, Kaitlin Welliver, is BlueWare’s vice president of product quality and design. She echoed her mother’s sentiments.
“The truth will set us free,” Welliver said.
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Heligoland is the fifth regular studio album from the collaborative British music production duo Massive Attack
TRACKLIST:
1. Pray for Rain 0:00
2. Babel 6:42
3. Splitting the Atom 11:59
4. Girl I Love You 17:15
5. Psyche 22:32
6. Flat of the Blade 25:54
7. Paradise Circus 31:53
8. Rush Minute 36:43
9. Saturday Come Slow 41:32
10. Atlas Air 45:00
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